Notes from the Field: Volume 6
This issue of UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship’s “Notes from the Field” highlights key lessons from the 2025 SISCO field tour, where students explored adaptive silviculture and innovative fuel treatments in BC’s dry-belt Douglas-fir ecosystems.
Forestry in Flux: Reimagining BC’s Forests
Join UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Alumni for a dialogue exploring BC forests’ future, challenges, and paths to balance values and sustainability.
West Coast Fire
Join us for a public talk on the new wildfire reality facing urban BC with best selling author and writer John Vaillant, Koerner Chair for the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence and UBC Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Professor Lori Daniels. The conversation will be moderated by UBC Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Professor Suzanne Simard.
John Vaillant: Fire Weather – Presentation and Panel Discussion
Join bestselling writer John Vaillant for a talk about our changing climate and the new realities of wildfire.
Wildfire Coexistence in BC: Solutions Symposium
This Symposium is intended for the general public to learn about the stark realities of the societal, health, cultural, environmental, and economic costs of wildfires across British Columbia and the actions needed now.
UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Launches Wildfire Research Centre
UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship launches the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence, led by Prof. Lori Daniels, to address escalating wildfire risks through proactive forest management. The Koerner family’s $5 million donation supports this initiative for safer, sustainable futures amidst wildfires.
Kea Rutherford receives Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Best Master’s Thesis Award for 2023
UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship would like to congratulate Kea Rutherford on receiving the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship Best Master’s Thesis Award for 2023.
Exploring Nature’s Classroom: UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship students reflect on field school in South Africa
Explore UBC Forestry & Environmental Stewardship’s newest field school in South Africa through the eyes of our undergraduates in excerpts from their personal reflections.
Kira Hoffman named Trebek Grantee and National Geographic Explorer
Congratulations to Dr. Kira Hoffman for being named a Trebek Grantee from the Trebek Initiative and a National Geographic Explorer for her research Fighting Fire with Food!
Fighting Fire with Food
Project led by Gitanyow Nation in collaboration with UBC researchers explores how cultural burning and planting practices protect against catastrophic wildfire.